Re: Slow UltraDMA using tar

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Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:05:14 -0600

The other possibility is that Redhat 5.0 had a problem with
'/etc/nsswitch.conf'. If you were in a non nis or yp domain, and you
have references to nis, nisplus, or yp in your nsswitch.conf, tar will
work very slowly.

Yes, it seems strange, but assuming you are not using yp, nis, or
nisplus try removeing all references to them from your nsswitch.conf and
it should speed right up.

thanks,

Joshua

Sean Garagan wrote:
>
> Good day,
>
> I have noticed that untar'ing a file on an UltraDMA HD seems to be extremely
> slow. Doing an untar with Apache-1.3.1.tar.gz took almost two minutes while
> untar on the kernel source took much longer.
>
> Some specs:
> WD 6.4G UltraDMA HD
> Chipset 440BX
> Pentium II 350MHz
> 128M 100MHz SDRAM
> Linux 2.0.3[45]
> RedHat 5.0
> tar 1.12
>
> Sean
>
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